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Justin Taylor:

Just because “Oh my God!” is abused in our culture—a case of taking great God’s name lightly and in vain—doesn’t mean we should refrain from the vocative “O my God!”

Note in the Bible how often it is used in conjunction with imploring God to listen, to see, to remember, to arise, and to save.

2 Chronicles 6:40

Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

Ezra 9:6

“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Psalm 25:2

O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.

Psalm 38:21

Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 40:17

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!

Psalm 59:1

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me.

Psalm 71:12

O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

Daniel 9:19

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake,O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.